Simply put, I want the power of a desktop, but the flexibility to be able to take a laptop with everything on it to a client or another location to work on. The added advantage of a backed up system.
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Is it something possible to detect touch boundaries on a screen?
My real question is relative to Javascript and Touch Events, but even speaking of common software (a regular application rather than a ...

Currently, I do not have a fixed process for cross device testing other than randomly asking the people around my co-working space to test my site on whatever device they have on-hand. This is quite a ...

I have more or less 0 knowledge in low-level topics, so forgive my possible ignorance.
I know that in languages such as C, pointers hold 'memory addresses', i.e. strings (or binary data?) written in ...

For a while I have been pondering the question of, given a standard interface specification, whether there is a way to allow multiple programs to control multiple hardware devices across the network. ...

Does it violate the GPL v3 if I were to use a gpl licensed firmware with my closed-source hardware that I am selling? Or do both have to be open-source, or do I just have to make the firmware source ...

I have a general idea of how the processor handles instructions but spend my time working in mostly high level languages. Maybe somebody who works closer to the iron can provide some valuable insight.
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Most modern languages make a heavy use of pointers / references: a typical OOP language uses VMT lookups, a typical functional language builds key data structures out of pointers, etc. Even typical C ...

Instead of programming the way we do, why don't we make specifications of common tasks such as "sorting", and then let the environment compile it to make best use of it's hardware? This way, we could ...

I have successfully connected my microcontroller to my TV via through VGA adapter i made that convert digital to analog signals with the help of resistors.
Currently i am utilizing 8 pins that I am ...

Working in immutable data with single assignments has the obvious effect of requiring more memory, one would presume, because you're constantly creating new values (though compilers under the covers ...

I thought long and hard on weather to put this question in programmers or stack overflow. Please let me know if this is not the right place and I will post it to SO.
My friend and I am developing a ...

Say you have a situation where you divide and then multiply a float, and you need to guarantee that it survives macheps (ie multiplication output equals division input). What are known strategies for ...

I understand that computers are basically a complex system of electrical signatures that can calculate based on logic boards, and some sort of gate mechanism, but how do computers process something ...

One of my company's applications still requires a hardware key to run, but we're currently in the process of removing that requirement and replacing it with an online check. The issue we are having ...

We have an application that we need to ensure that our APPLICATION DATA should not be used (or opened) in different computers with same users. For that we thought about getting harddisk GUID as a part ...

For the past 2-3 weeks I've been searching for different ways to implement custom video streaming and in more general video capturing and manipulating, going through DVR-cards, Video Capture Cards and ...

Since that every things is a file on the UNIX system. If I have a hardware, for example, a mouse, move from left corner to right corner, it should produce some kinds of file to communicate with the ...

we are planning to create a commercial product. The product consists of some MCUs and a small computer (we are developing on a Raspberry Pi at the moment).
The computer needs an operating system as ...

Sorry, for my confused question. I'm looking for some pointers.
Up to now I have been working mostly with Java and Python on the application layer and I have only a vague understanding of operating ...

Do vendors need to provide sources, at the customer's request, for GPL licensed software installed on the hardware they sell?
For example, a vendor sells an IPTV box and pre-installs some proprietary ...

How do vector registers work in terms of calculations and alloting data to them ?
Is there a detailed reference available somewhere explaining how vector registers work and how data is fetched from ...